Quote

I did not know that my entire personality, my entire being, could be discarded as the byproduct of my anatomy. What if I really am just someone with a large prefrontal cortex...and nothing more?

Veronica Roth

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Large
Personality
Someone
Nothing
Cortex
Really
Byproduct
Discarded
Anatomy
Entire

More quotes by Veronica Roth

Image
He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness afraid that he will make me bare too. ‘Is this scaring you, Tris?’ ‘No,’ I croak. I clear my throat. ‘Not really. I’m only…afraid of what I want.’ ‘What do you want?’ Then his face tightens. ‘Me?’ Slowly I nod.
Veronica Roth
Image
The person you became with her is worth being.
Veronica Roth
Image
You chose us. Now we have to choose you.
Veronica Roth
Image
But now I’m wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, “Dauntless,” “Erudite,” “Divergent,” “Allegiant,” or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us.
Veronica Roth
Image
His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
Veronica Roth
Image
Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt
Veronica Roth
Image
Since he saved me from the attack, I have associated his smell with safety, so as long as I focus on it, I feel safe now.
Veronica Roth
Image
I’d rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.
Veronica Roth
Image
Out of my peripheral vision, I see Four shove the door open and walk out. Apparently this fight isn't interesting enough for him. Or maybe he's going to figure out why everything's spinning like a top, and I don't blame him I want to know the answer too.
Veronica Roth
Image
I wake wondering how I did not notice, every day I sat across from her at the breakfast table, that she was full to bursting with Dauntless energy. Was it because she hid it well? Or was it because I wasn't looking?
Veronica Roth
Image
I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying as hard as she can to destroy herself … I can’t love her.
Veronica Roth
Image
Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is.
Veronica Roth
Image
Yeah, sometimes life really sucks. But you know what I'm holding on for? The moments that don't suck. The trick is to notice them when they come around.
Veronica Roth
Image
My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.
Veronica Roth
Image
It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.
Veronica Roth
Image
One Choice One Choice, decided your friends. One Choice, defines your beliefs. One Choice, determines your loyalties - Forever. ONCE CHOICE CAN TRANSFORM YOU
Veronica Roth
Image
Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
Veronica Roth
Image
He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like I was strong. That is all I need to know.
Veronica Roth
Image
The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it, I say. Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care.
Veronica Roth
Image
But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
Veronica Roth